mountain view from the hostel on a clear day

Trekking in YunnanMay 27th 2011 I left Lijang at 8am on on a special bus to Tiger Leaping Gorge which stops in Qiaotou, the town where the trek starts. Unfortunately it takes almost 3 hours so after storing my big pack at a guest house in town it was 11 am before I could start and quite a hot day. There were a few other westerners who also got off at the same place including a Canadian couple I spoke to breifly at the guest hous ... read more

Asia » China » YunnanFor centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more